ITL 604 Fieldwork: Experienced Special Education Teacher
Fieldwork: Experienced Special Education Teacher Colin J. Kenley ITL604: Learners and Learning 1 Carroll Green 27 March 2019 Observation John Meyer’s L/English 6 class is in room E- at Poway High School. To find it you walk past the full-sized pool, across the sunny outdoor campus, and past the rows of palm trees. His classroom is unassuming. A white board, rows of desks, pictures of John’s family and a few posters for movies or books are all that decorate the room. About 15 Juniors fill the seats, and they wait until the bell rings to pull out their materials for the day. Most of the students in John Meyer’s class fall into the Specific Learning Disability category, while a few are classified as having an Autism Spectrum Disorder or Other health Impairment. During our interview, Meyers tells me that roughly 90% of his students either have a SLD or OHI, which falls in line with Slavin’s findings that “the largest proportion” of special ed. students ar...
